Explore Mammoth Cave National Park, the longest cave system on Earth, featuring the richest known habitat for cave wildlife in the world. It may be difficult to think of caves as spacious and grand, ...

Floyd Collins entered Sand Cave a century ago today to explore its prospects as a visitor site and became trapped in a passageway not much wider than his chest, dislodging a 27-pound rock that pinned ...

Explore Gap Cave, enjoy camping at Wilderness Road Campground ... Although it is a bit more popular than Mammoth Caves National Park in west-central Kentucky, the numbers are still low.

Under a swath of Kentucky hills and hollows is a limestone labyrinth that became the heartland of a national park. The surface of Mammoth Cave National Park encompasses about 80 square miles.

The incident drew national attention and helped lead to the creation of Mammoth Cave National Park. Collins' legacy lives on through the park, a popular song and an upcoming Broadway musical.

Thursday marks a century since his entrapment, an incident that helped lead to the creation of Mammoth Cave National Park. Here’s how. During the Kentucky Cave Wars – when cave owners in the ...

but it was at Mammoth Cave that I truly fell in love with national parks. You see, in none of my five previous park visits had I really understood that I was in a national park. Two of them happened ...

It's what (first) brought people here and what brings people back to study this region,” said Mammoth Cave National Park spokesperson Molly Schroer. “I mean, what drives a person to go into a ...

Thursday marks a century since his entrapment, an incident that helped lead to the creation of Mammoth Cave National Park. Here’s how. Collins is considered “one of the greatest cave explorers of all ...